Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Stamford was settled in 1641, and it was named for the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire, England. It became the location of several summer homes for New Yorkers during the late 19th century, and it later developed as a commuter town for New York City. Stamford was incorporated as a city in 1893, and its real estate boomed in the 1960s and 1970s. It became the third-largest city in the state and the seventh-largest in New England, and it had a population of 129,113 people in 2016.